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title The Narrative Forms of Southern Community Southern Literary Studies - photo 1

title:The Narrative Forms of Southern Community Southern Literary Studies
author:Romine, Scott.
publisher:Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin:080712401X
print isbn13:9780807124017
ebook isbn13:9780585280851
language:English
subjectAmerican fiction--Southern States--History and criticism, Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin,--1790-1870.--Georgia scenes, Kennedy, John Pendleton,--1795-1870.--Swallow barn, Page, Thomas Nelson,--1853-1922.--In ole Virginia, Percy, William Alexander,--1885-194
publication date:1999
lcc:PS261.R53 1999eb
ddc:813.009/975
subject:American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism, Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin,--1790-1870.--Georgia scenes, Kennedy, John Pendleton,--1795-1870.--Swallow barn, Page, Thomas Nelson,--1853-1922.--In ole Virginia, Percy, William Alexander,--1885-194
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Southern Literary Studies
Fred Hobson, Editor
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The Narrative Forms of Southern Community
Scott Romine
Page vi Copyright 1999 by Louisiana State University Press All rights - photo 2
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Copyright 1999 by Louisiana State University Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Romine, Scott.
The narrative forms of Southern community / Scott Romine.
p. cm. (Southern literary studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8071-2401-X (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8071-2527-X (p : alk. paper)
1. American fictionSouthern StatesHistory and criticism.
2. Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 17901870. Georgia scenes.
3. Kennedy, JOhn Pendleton, 17951870. Swallow barn. 4. Page,
Thomas Nelson, 18531922. In ole Virginia. 5. Percy, William
Alexander, 18851942. Lanterns on the levee. 6. Faulkner, William,
18971962. Light in August. 7. Southern StatesIn literature.
8. Community in literature. 9. Narration (Rhetoric) 10. Literary
form. 11. Autobiography. I. Title. II. Series.
PS261.R53 1999
813.009'975dc21 99-14905
CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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Page vii
For my parents, Donna and Jerry Romine
Page ix
Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
1
Negotiating Community Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes
24
2
The Plantation Community John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn and Thomas Nelson Page's In Ole Virginia
65
3
The Aesthetics of Community William Alexander Percy's Lanterns on the Levee
112
4
Narrating the Community Narrating William Faulkner's Light in August
149
Epilogue: Whence the Community? Some Thoughts on Contemporary Southern Fiction
196
Bibliography
213
Index
223

Page xi
Acknowledgments
First and warmest thanks to Professors Fred Hobson, Julius Rowan Raper, Lucinda H. MacKethan, Weldon Thornton, Robert L. Phillips Jr., John Shelton Reed, and Kimball King for reading all or part of this manuscript at various stages. Their insights, suggestions, and expertise have been invaluable. A Summer Excellence Research Award from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro was helpful in providing time to complete this project. Thanks also to my colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, especially Michael Parker, Russ McDonald, Gail McDonald, Mary Ellis Gibson, and Stephen Yarbrough, for various e-mail correspondence, conversations in the hallway, and offhand insights that have, in one way or another, affected my thinking about the issues raised in this book. An earlier version of chapter 1 was published as "Negotiating Community in Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes" in Style 30, no. 1 (spring 1996): 127; and an earlier version of chapter 3 was published as "The Levee and the Garden: Will Percy's Pastoral Aesthetic in Lanterns on the Levee" in Southern Quarterly 35, no. 1 (fall 1996): 2942. Thanks to these journals and their editors, James M. Mellard and Stephen Flinn Young, for permission to reprint this material. My wife, Karen Weyler, has been willing to discuss ideas, read drafts of chapters, and mark them with copious amounts of red ink. Lastly, I would like to thank the late Professor Robert Bain, with whom I shared many conversations about southern literature that I value more and more as the years pass.
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Introduction
In his chapter on William Faulkner in The History of Southern Literature, Cleanth Brooks writes that a "true community... is held together by manners and morals deriving from a commonly held view of reality."1 It is virtually a clich that this "true community" is central to southern literature; from the beginning of southern literary studies as an academic discipline, the community has served as a critical touchstone, perhaps most notably in the work of Brooks himself. And yet Brooks makes a mistake so obvious that, like Poe's purloined letter, it threatens to go unnoticed: the commonly held view of reality to which he refers is a fantasy and always has been. I take the very presence of mannerswhich are, after all, a way of deferring conflict on an everyday basisto indicate the fantastical nature of a social group that apprehends reality "as one." Manners might be said to produce a commonly held view of reality; they do not derive from it. Writers in the conservative tradition have tended to replicate Brooks's positivist tendencies without replicating his critical acumen, often creating an artificial division between the community's vices and its virtues, a division that allows the recuperation of the one and the repression of the other, as if, say, racial discrimination was an incidental flaw of the southern community circa 1930
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